Match packet



M3123, 1939- R. s. PULLEN 2,159,103

MATCH PACKET Filed Aug. 7, 1936` Patented May 23, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

The invention herein relates to match packets of the type in which the match is ignited as it is being withdrawn. It is intended to apply to match packets comprising a pair of strips of matches only or a plurality of pairs of strips of matches as desired. l

One purpose of the invention is to protect the fingers of the user as the match is being withdrawn.

A further purpose is to turn back the ends of so-called paper match sticks in order to give an additional hold for assistance in the withdrawing of matches from pull-and-light match packets.

A further purpose is to terminate the body of the packet at both sides in flaps which bind an end protecting bale in place independently of the outer wrap.

A further purpose relates to the type of bale used to protect from flashing at the ends of the Y 20 packet.

Further purposes will appear in the specification and in the claims. l The invention has been illustrated by a preferred form selected from others embodying the l invention by the fact that it illustrates the principles involved to great advantage.

Figures 1, 2 and 3 are perspective views of finished match packets.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the packet of Figure 1 with the end flaps of the outer Wrap in position to protect the fingers and thumb of the user when a match is being Withdrawn.

Figure 5 is a plan view of a paper strip such as is used to produce the body of the packet of Figure 1 or Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a side elevation of the structure of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a plan View of a paper strip forming the bale used in Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 8 is a plan view of a paper strip forming the wrap appearing in Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 9 is a side elevation of the wrap of Figure 8.

Figure 10 is an end elevation of the packet of Figures 1 and 2 just before application of the Figure 11 is a side elevation of the wrap after the bale has been inserted and ilaps have been turned down but before the outer wrap has been y v applied. Parts have been broken away.

indicate like than would be indicated by application to any oney .i5 form of packet. Such features are forr example,

(Cl. 20G-29) the doubly protective outside wrap and the turning down of the match stick ends. On the other hand, that feature of the invention directed to the position of the bale is dependent upon use with a packet body terminating laterally in flaps which can come down to hold the bale in position.

In order that the cownstruction which has been adopted for illustration may be understood it will be described beginning with the formation of the interior of the packet.

The blank shown in Figures and 6 is quite comparable with the blank shown in Pullen Patent No. 1,921,372 but is a double blank for two pairs of staggered rows of matches as distinguished from the blank of that patent which provides for a single pair only of staggered rows of matches. Approximately at the center the blank is double scored at I5. It is apertured at I6, II, I8 and I9 to receive the matches of the respective rows, the matches of one pair of rows fitting within apertures I6 and II and those of another pair within apertures I8 and I9. The blank is double scored at 20, 2|, 22, 23, 24 and 25.

The folding on the double lines at I5, 2| and 24 is opposite to that upon the double lines at 20, 22, 23 and 25.

. The portions of the blank as divided by the score lines are indicated at 26, 21, 28, 29, 30, 3|, 32 and 33 of which 26 and 33 comprise the outer flaps of the body or insertand 2l, 28, 3| and 32 carry striking material 2l', 28', 3| and 32. Sections 2'I with 28 and 3| with 32 form spacers 34 and 34 between the rows of matches of the same pair, being bent re-entrantly toward the match heads about score lines 2|), 22 and 23, 25 respectively as base lines and being bent at 2| and 24, respectively at the apices. Between these spacers sections 29 and 30 are bent re-entrantly along score line I5 and about base score lines 22 and 23 to form a spacer 35. The adjoining inner faces of these sections 29 and 30 are attached as by glue 36. Spacers 34 and 34' separate matches of rows within the respective pairs of rows and spacer 35 separate the pairs. Considering the matches as being presented to the openings I6, I1, I8 and I9 with the heads up the bending is such that the score lines 2|, I5 and 24 lie nearer the observer than do score lines 20, 22, 23 and 24.

The sticks of the matches lie within the openings IB, Il, I8 and I9 and, therefore within the folds along score lines 20, 22, 23 and 25 so that the match sticks are grasped by the side walls 3l and 38 of the openings which, by the folding, become oval openings.

The re-entrant spacing folds and the matches in position but before completion of the packet are best seen in Figure 11. In line with re-entrant spacers 34 and 34' are shown corrugated separators 39 and 40 extending out at least to the match heads and desirably to the outer ends of the match heads.

As seen in Figures 7 and 11 the bale when folded preferably tapers on its lateral edges inwardly from the stick ends to the head ends of the matches. In order to accommodate this condition, the lateral dimension (across the width of the packet) of the corrugated strips is less than the lateral dimension of the spacers. Thus, as seen in Figure 11, the corrugated spacers between the individual matches of the rows terminate at 42 short of the packet as it would otherwise be Vdened by the ends 44 of the spacers 34, 34' `and 35. No corrugated material is shown between the pairs of rows of matches.

This construction as thus far described with the matches in place would be open at the edges. The edges of thepacket are therefore closed by a generally rectangular bale 45 which lies between the flaps 2.6 and 33 at the two sides and the matches 46 so that the bale is held in position by the flaps when the naps are fastened to place.

The bale 45 is double scored at 4l, 48, 49 and 50. The bale section covers the greater part of one side of the matches in which may be considered to be the body of the packet, lacking the cover or wrapper. The portions 52 and 53 close off the ends of the packet and the portions 54 and 55 fold toward each other so as together to perform the same covering function on the opposite side as that which is effected by the outer portion 5|.

It will be evident that the ap ends 26 and 33 will close down from their positions in Figure upon the middle portion 5I of the bale and upon the end portions 54 and 55 respectively of the bale, to hold the bale parts tightly in place (ordinarily without need of adhesive) during continued steps of manufacture and subsequent use.

The cover comprises a central portion 56, which closes the head end of the packet, fixed sides 5l, 58 forming the outer at faces of the packet and terminal flaps 59, 60. The front and back at sections 51, 58 are attached to the flaps 26 and 33 preferably by glue which may be applied on either part. It has been shown in the drawing as applied to the surfaces 6l and 62, parts of the surfaces 5l and 58. The sections of the cover are bent, one with respect to another, about double score lines 63, 64, 65 and 66.

It will be noted that four differences in matches are shown. These comprise the paper matches of Figures 1 and 11, cut in Figure 1 and not yet cut in Figure 11, the paper matches having their stick ends turned back in Figure 3 and the Wooden matches in Figure 2.

It will be evident that the termination of the corrugated material short of the full length of the packet permits the ilat central panel of the bale to be of shorter length across the width of the packet from 51 to 68 than the width of this panel of the bale from 69 to l0, cooperating nicely with the wedge-shaped character of the packet end parts of the bale which are correspondingly tapered so that lines ll and 'l2 through these packet end portions of the bale are approximately parallel. The slight deviation of the bale and flaps from parallelism at their edges, one with the other, is not sufficient-to be noticeable in the nished packet.

It will be evident that the bending over ofthe stick ends of the paper matches as' seen in Figure 3 cooperates with the pull-and-light character of the packet itself and hence with the protective flaps 52 and 53 whose protective function would be unnecessary if the packet were not of the pulland-light type. Y

It will be evident that the various features which have been described, the tapered character of the central portion of the bale, the turning back of the ends of the match sticks and the protective use of flaps 53 and 60 is suited equally to the packet containing four rows of matches shown in Figure 1 and to the packet containing two rows only as in Figure 3 and are of value whatever the number of rows.

In view of my invention and disclosure variations and modifications to meet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art to obtain part or all of the benefits of my invention without copying the'structure shown, and I, therefore, claim all such in so far as they fall within the reasonable spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A pull-and-light type of match packet containing individualy separated paper matches and in which the stick ends of the paper matches are turned backwardly upon themselves and cut off adjacent the stick ends to give a holding for pulling purposes.

2. A paper packet comprising individually separated paper matches, a packet wrapping about the matches enclosing the head ends of the matches and parts of the match sticks, exposing the stick ends of the matches and having scratching material in the path of withdrawal of the matches and having the paper match stick ends turned back upon themselves and cut off adjacent the stick ends to form engaging terminals to asist in match withdrawal.

3. A match packet body comprising two pairs of rows of matches staggered within adjacent rows, a paper strip re-entrantly bent toward the match heads between adjoining rows of each of the two pairs to form spacers, the strip being apertured and the matches passing through the apertures in the strip on opposite sides of the spacers, strip flaps terminating the paper strip and kadapted to be bent toward the heads of the matches and a bale surrounding the matches at the head ends and passing beneath and held in place by the said strip aps.

4. In a match packet, a match receiving strip apertured to permit passage of the matches through the strip and terminating in strip flaps at front and back of the packet and outside of the matches at front and back, in combination with an end-closing bale fitting about the heads and adjacent stick portions of the matches and held in position between the flaps and the adjacent matches.r

5. In a match packet, a match receiving strip apertured to permit passage of the matches through the stripr and terminating in strip flaps at iront and back of the matches and outside of the matches in combination with an end closing bale fitting about the heads and adjacent stick portions'of thev matches and held in position between the strip flaps and the adjacent matches and a wrap closing the packet at the match head end thereof extendingover the said flaps and having terminal wrap flaps adapted to bend outwardly away from the body to protect the user from ash.

6. In a match packet having adjoining rows of matches staggered, those in one row as compared with those in the next, a re-,entrantly bent match holding strip, the bends forming spacers between the rows of matches in adjoining rows and the strip being apertured to receive the matches ofthe rows, corrugated material located between the matches of adjoining rows nearer to the match heads than the spacing bends and narrower in the width of the packet transversely of the matches than the width of the strip at the bends, in combination with a bale laterally enclosing the bends of the strip, the matches and the corrugated material, shorter at the head ends of the matches than at the bends of the strip, closing the otherwise open ends of the packet and tapered at this closure corresponding to the taper from the larger heads to the smaller sticks and a wrap closing on the head end of the packet.

7. In a match packet having adjoining rows of matches staggered, those in one row as compared with those in the next, a re-entrantly bent match holding strip, the bends forming spacers between the rows of matches in adjoining rows andthe strip being apertured to receive the matches of the rows, corrugated material located between the matches of adjoining rows nearer to the match heads than the spacing bends and narrower in the width of the packet transversely of the matches than the width of the strip at the bends, in combination with a bale laterally enclosing the bends of the strip, the matches and the corrugated material, shorter at the head end of the matches than at the bends of the strip, closing the otherwise open ends of the packet and tapered at this closure corresponding to the taper from the larger heads to the smaller sticks, flaps from the strip embracing the bale and holding it in place and a wrap closing the head end of the packet and secured to the aps.

8. In a match packet, a plurality of matches arranged side by side, a body portion having apertures through which the matches pass, ignition material on the body in the line of match withdrawal, a bale passing about the ignition material transversely of the match length and a wrap folded about the bale and body having flaps extending along the exposed stick ends of the matches and folded adjacent its line of joining with the bale to diverge and protect the finger and thumb of the user from ignition are.

RODN EY S. PULLEN. 

